Mirush Quotes & Sayings

A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can't do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right. — Fredrik Backman

To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away. — Jay Michaelson

Whoever wants to understand much must play much. — Gottfried Benn

[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city. — Daniel Dennett

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. — Khalil Gibran

How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell? — Cormac McCarthy

They loved their country largely because they controlled it. — Tom Clancy

Democracy is not a good by itself. It is completely dependent upon the nature of the people, both for its efficacy and for its survival. One can say that a "democratic" people, if placed under a dictatorship, would be more "democratically" ruled than a "dictatorship" people placed under a democracy and one can expect that both would very soon revert to the system that suited them. The system works for us, and it works extremely well, but to think that therefore a government should be judged by the measure of its "democracy" is sheer nonsense. — G.M. Mes

I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered! — Khloe Kardashian

Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. But a very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve the Dream. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. — Louis Armstrong

You lead me and keep me from falling. You carry me close to Your heart. And surely Your goodness and mercy will follow me. — Chris Tomlin

Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals. — Adam Rex

the nurse who'd prostituted her profession to act as jailer, — M.R. Hall